An update from November: We spoke briefly at UIC’s Asian American Resource & Cultural Center for their Trans Day of Remembrance event, which this year honored the late Mark Aguhar. Before we moved to Chicago and were still blogging under the moniker Radical Faggot, Mark was one of our original supporters. She helped get some…
Read MoreApril 2022
This month we will continue our workshop series with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, as well as lead an Intro to Prison Abolition workshop with members of Free Street Theater’s Youth Ensemble, informing their latest production 57 Blocks, which grapples with the intersections of incarceration and migration in Chicago. We’ll also return for the second…
Read MoreJanuary 2022
Welcome to a new chapter, and a new opportunity to build something radical from which future generations can benefit. Our last essay for The Funambulist on copaganda and the coercing of Black and brown youth into police interactions, which first appeared online in August, will be republished in print for the magazine’s 39th issue The…
Read MoreJuly 2021
We added a training-the-trainers workshop to our June schedule for the Defund CPD campaign, helping to bring more facilitators into the fold, and spread the demand to abolish the Chicago Police Department to neighborhoods across the city. Our conversation with E’mon Lauren for The Real Hoodwives of Chicago podcast was joyful and moving, touched on…
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